When we see through our hearts, we recognize that every single one of us is infused with creativity. Divine Sparks are embedded in everyone and everything. It's up to us to be courageous, to look and listen deeply, to find the sparks, gather and release them back into the universe, transformed into something new. Join me as we wake up to the sacred-ordinary blessings waiting to greet us each and every day.

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people pass right by. Your generosity of spirit and keen eyes may open the door
to miniscule miracles and mirth others would not have access to otherwise. Feel
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Many thanks for stopping by - but I was so disappointed my thumbnail (first entry above) didn't work! Can you please let me know if you could delete it and for me to resubmit? (Linky won't allow me to do it myself - says I'm duplicating!)

I hope you and your friends like my personal "look at the world with open eyes" on a special neighborhood of Hamburgs borough Schanzenviertel I posted today.Come on and take a stroll with me through the streets of Schanzenviertel, if you like......regards from sunny Germany,Uwe.

Dear Laura,The picture of the little drop with the reflections and your beautiful words are so wonderful!!! I thank you for sharing these and for your lovely words on my blog, too.I also see hearts everywhere, like you. These are love messages from someone special!!!I hope you are fine!Wishing you all the best,Katrin

A branch, honestly, has never looked lovelier. Wow, I thought I looked close last week, but you have shown me I need to look closer. I have one I'm hoping to post here tomorrow (working on the poem for it) but I will try to delve deeper in to nature for next week. I love the dew drop as well...

Beautiful and touching images! Thanks a lot for visiting. Congratulations for your site! Came to my mind this: The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.Aristotle

Wow...so much in a drop.. These are really beautiful Laura.. (I did see the doc and there is something showing up on MRI, but not MS but looks more like something vascular. She said not to worry and I need another MRI in 6 months. Not to worry is easy for someone to say, not easy to do as you know.. hugs..Michelle

Hello Laura,what a very nice blog with lots of beautiful pictures that speak deeply to the inner. You druoole with the corresponding text are very nice to read. Da other small photos below are also a source of inspiration.Dear greetings, Helma

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I made an interesting discovery one day when writing to a KMCC client. When I entered the word"scatteredness" spell-check insisted on changing it to"sacredness".Indeed, thesmall, scatteredmoments ofcreativityandawareness that make up our days are often where sacredness can be found.

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It isn't the things that happen to us in our lives that cause us to suffer, it's how we relate to the things that happen to us that causes us to suffer.

~Ani Pema Chödrön

(Read about the Chipmunk King and view a video of Ani Pema discussing thishere)

Remnants

Before the eMeS, my now constant companion begged me to stay close to home, I taught art, yoga and meditation to Jewish teens in the Greater Boston area. The collage series in the slide show above was created using forgotten paper scraps that slipped between the cracks of the tables onto the floor, from an Art as a Sacred Practice class I taught to High School students several years ago. My intention was to find the intrinsic value in each remnant. Often the beauty of an individual person goes unrecognized or unappreciated until it is revealed in the context of a relationship; the same is true of colors, shapes and textures. Click on the images to take a closer look. They are tiny works, some no bigger than 1.5” x 1.5”

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